For the people of Gloucester, it was the equivalent of a death in the family.
It seemed fated to be that way in the sense that things Kennedy descend on history like things from no other family — in this case, the quintessential sailor adopting himself into America’s most seaworthy city.
From the pre-beginnings of his own political career — when a former Gloucester mayor was assigned to keep the Kennedy family’s dibs on the U.S. Senate seat of his brother John, who’d been elected president, until he was old enough to run for, win and secure it for the next 47 years — right up to the end, which came late Tuesday, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy treated Gloucester as his home away from home.
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